( November 3, 2025, 12:43 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York denied a request from several nonprofit grassroots organizations focused on climate change and the environment to intervene as defendants in a lawsuit filed by the United States against New York over the state’s Climate Change Superfund Act, holding that the groups’ interests are adequately represented by the state, but granted their request to file an amicus curiae brief against the government’s motion for summary judgment....